Includes bibliographical references and index.

There are various books on green chemistry on the market, but without focus on sustainable industrial processes. This resource provides an overview of the new trends and hot topics in process design, describing the challenge of designing industrial chemical processes that are up-to-date, sustainable, & economically feasible. 1 From Green to Sustainable Industrial Chemistry -- 2 Methods and Tools of Sustainable Industrial Chemistry: Catalysis -- 3 Methods and Tools of Sustainable Industrial Chemistry: Process Intensification -- 4 Membrane Technologies at the Service of Sustainable Development Through Process Intensification -- 5 Accounting for Chemical Sustainability -- 6 Synthesis of Propene Oxide: A Successful Example of Sustainable Industrial Chemistry -- 7 Synthesis of Adipic Acid: On the Way to More Sustainable Production -- 8 Ecofining: New Process for Green Diesel Production from Vegetable Oil -- 9 A New Process for the Production of Biodiesel by Transesterification of Vegetable Oils with Heterogeneous Catalysis -- 10 Highly Sour Gas Processing in a More Sustainable World -- 11 BioETBE: A New Component for Gasoline -- 12 Olefin/Paraffin Alkylation: Evolution of a "Green" Technology -- 13 Towards the Direct Oxidation of Benzene to Phenol -- 14 Friedel-Crafts Acylation of Aromatic Ethers Using Zeolites -- 15 Green Sustainable Chemistry in the Production of Nicotinates -- 16 Introducing Green Metrics Early in Process Development. Comparative Assessment of Alternative Industrial Routes to Elliott's Alcohol, A Key Intermediate in the Production of Resmethrins -- 17 Basell Spherizone Technology